Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow... John Milton: the Patriot and Poet - الصفحة 76بواسطة Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 235عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft fecks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| Henry Mackenzie - 1783 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...rural retirement. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks the fweet retired folitude, Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the hurtling hurry of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. As thefe difpofitions and fentiments... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1785 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...the sense of altogether (which Mr. Warton has judiciously restored) is used in the same context, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That in the various bustle of resort " Were ail-to ruffled " In North's Plutarch is a passage which will confirm the observation above : " setting... | |
| John Milton - 1785 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...FLAT." Again, B. ii. 222. Of beauty. Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all to ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 182
...fecrecy of defert Cell; And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her Wings, That in the various Buftle of Refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair M. after having puffed the Buft of Locke,... | |
| John Bell - 1788 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her ova radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 37? Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft feeks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various' buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| John Bell - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...not) " Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, " And put them into misbecoming plight. " Virtue could see to do what Virtue would " By her own radiant light tho' sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk; and Wisdom's self " Oft' seeks to sweet retired solitude,... | |
| John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...not) " Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, " And put them into misbecoming plight. " Virtue could see to do what Virtue would " By her own radiant light tho' sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk ; and Wisdom's self " Oft' seeks to sweet retired solitude,... | |
| 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...perhaps, is not impartially just •, will turnish our English readers with no bad motto to this book. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She |>luraes her feathers, lets grow he? wings, . That, in the various bustle of resort, Were, all too... | |
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